skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the UK almost all junctions have either people crossing, or cars turning, but not both at the same time.

This sounds super strange from a continental European standard as well. Do you mean that cars and pedestrians are never crossing these intersections at the same time?

In any case, the UK also has at least a few cities where pedestrians often have no dedicated signal and are (in these junctions) left to fend for themselves while crossing due to the lack of signals and lack of priority. I don’t understand that situation at all.
But the dominance of MySQL and LAMP happened long before InnoDB.
Aside from the usual litany of talking points from the last decade that everyone is well aware of, this person is missing the forest for the trees when discussing "composability". Nevermind that this seems to be starting from their priors and working backwards.

Here's a much more level-headed(and detailed) analysis of what is interesting, and not-so-interesting, about "web3":

https://www.psl.com/feed-posts/web3-engineer-take
The person who did the original hack on these says they are audible and the controller is constantly switching the fan on and off so they reconnected it to 3.3v all the time. So it runs at a lower speed and constantly.

See this link under the low noise mod heading

https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-vindriktning-particle-sens...
Right, and that's why the physical art analogy breaks down. Was just trying to come up with a slightly better physical art analogy. Copies are possible, forgeries are possible, and provenance is a real challenge. However with NFTs it all takes an abusive amount of electricity.
Valuations are important, thanks for raising the CAPE ratio. My intuition is to adjust every valuation concern for the extremely low level of prevailing interest rates. Fortunately, Schiller (of the CAPE ratio) already has a measure for this: excess CAPE yield[1]. Current ECY is roughly where it was in a decade ago, near the beginning of a long bull run. TL;DR; as long as interest rates stay low, equity valuations are not necessarily out of whack.

Interest rate forecasting is a different beast entirely, but worth noting that we have not had "normal" interest rates for ~15 years (and then only for a couple of years), and Japan has not had "normal" rates for close to 30 years.

[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sky-high-stock-prices-make...

[2]: https://en.macromicro.me/charts/27100/us-shiller-ecy
It's technologically possible, but the 'user intent guessing' makes this messy. The Venn diagram of people who understand information seeking behavior and science well enough to design this and people who have a deep enough understanding of development to design it in a way that it doesn't break every 3 seconds is two circles.

So you'd need a team, and as somebody with a tech and a library background, good luck getting those two groups to communicate and work together. Doing it without the information seeking background just recreates the issues with the modern web where your 'robot butler' comes back with a ton of irrelevant information, and doing it without the tech background just gets you a bunch of librarians high-fiving themselves over 'solving' a problem using outdated tech and is used by 20 people because it doesn't scale well.
Hmmm but I thought a car is usually allowed to cross the pedestrian crossing, especially if turning right, even when the pedestrians are on WALK?
There are way more details to the AB testing over. UX is just a percentage of the total product. Users are being subjects because their behavior is what you make money out of. Is it moral that's a different discussion.
How to learn more about cryptocurrencies?
I am a CS student and want to learn more about the details of cryptocurrencies, in the hope of contributing to the open-src crypto community in the future.

Due to Google's crappy results, I cannot find anything. So can anyone involved in development of crypto please recommend good books that explain the fundamental details behind cryptocurrencies (PoW, PoS, etc.)?
> people keep designing desktop UIs as if there's a touchscreen or something

I think that also has to do with "more white space = more scrolling = more ads".

Reddit is a perfect example of this. When they "updated" their UI to the current one, they added a ton of extra white space which forced people to scroll longer, thus spending more time on the site and viewing more ads. They also use a ton of other dark patterns.
Definitely not in Europe, EuroNCAP added a pedestrian test a few years ago, and the test forced automakers to change their design for pedestrians in mind.
https://www.euroncap.com/en/vehicle-safety/the-ratings-expla...
I think the sentiment here is really:

No donations = no obligations
> Do you mean that cars and pedestrians are never crossing these intersections at the same time?

Well yeah... because that'd be dangerous if they went at the same time wouldn't it?
So, no security updates? Your users didn’t complain they couldn’t open documents created in newer versions?
I said this in another comment on this post, but check out ENS. I’ve been a blockchain skeptic for a long time (and still am about art NFTs and most other things) but the idea of “SSO without a company attached” feels like something the mainstream public actually does want (think of all the negative public sentiment around big tech companies harvesting data and the grudging acceptance people have of their dependence on FB and Google for identity and easy sign-in). It’s also something that requires blockchain and can’t be done without a “decentralized consensus” about who owns what username (this is how you get around relying on a particular company). And ENS works now, it’s the kind of thing you could just go ahead and add to a web app you’re working on without having to wait for “the tech to arrive” or anything.

Again, I’m still skeptical about most of this stuff, but this one thing seems like a pretty good and somewhat practical idea.
Yes, we understand the incentives. My kids want to stay up past their bedtime, but I still say no because of the consequences the next day. I'm sure you agree that simply because someone wants you to do something it has no bearing on whether it was the correct choice or not.
As mentioned in the article, Cloudflare expressly prohibits benchmarking their services in the tos.

I think it's rather disingenuous for Cloudflare to publish their own benchmarks calling out competitors when they won't allow anyone to run their own tests and comparisons.
If I attached an email to my profile publically than it's expected that people would be able to look up my email.
NYC and a few pedestrian heavy areas have actually started doing the reverse; delayed lefts.

The idea is that pedestrians, cars, etc. get a headstart so that by the time the left is legal, any people or vehicles crossing will squarely be in the middle instead of to the side where they could be blocked by a pillar.
You even improved the homepage of Wikipedia!

The original version has got to be one of the most dreadful pages on the internet, designed by committee and looks like it...
You can't personally control the lens...

That sword cuts both ways.

I'm not trying to control. I am trying to shine a light on the issue in an area that seems to be pervasively underilluminated.

You're the one who's lashed out several times now against that. If that's not an attempt at control, I don't know what it is.

If you find yourself in a conversation you're not having, one option is to leave.

Another is to see if that conversation might be one that you would benefit from.

That said, someone's hijacked this thread from a direct discussion of the phenonomenon originally at hand to several levels of meta, and in a markedly uninteresting and unilluminating direction.
Make sure you have not boxed yourself in by your pricing. Don't set a model that doesn't allow you to increase charges in line with inflation
Physics in APL2 (1986)
If I were at SF Police Union, I would not be asking for an apology. If they do not want police officers in the restaurant, that's fine, let's put them on "armed police officers do not come in list". And make the list public.
has there been a documented case of this happening yet? one would think that there must have been, at some point, by now. but then I suppose if someone were to make a program that accesses intentionally-inserted distributed immutable data in a blockchain and reconstructs an illegal file (probably an image), then I suppose that executable or source repository itself would then be taken down by authorities and its author(s) prosecuted. but to my knowledge, this hasn't actually happened yet...
Even when they have a dedicated signal and plenty of time, I'm surprised at how terrible most drivers are at turning left (US/Canada perspective here).

The standard approach seems to be, as soon as they enter the intersection, to point their car at the lane they're heading into, and then at the last second attempt to correct the fact that they're entering that lane diagonally. That usually means either cutting the corner of the oncoming lane or swerving into the adjacent lane/bike lane/shoulder (or both).

This is easily remedied by proceeding straight into the intersection for roughly a car length before starting the turn. This lets you maintain a roughly constant turning radius and sets you up to enter the destination lane more or less straight-on. A bonus is that it's safer (it's easier to see people in the crosswalk) and more comfortable (than the sudden-jerk-at-the-end-of-the-turn that the typical maneuver requires).
>We've allowed and encouraged auto makers to optimize for passenger safety.

Well we've outlawed all the other options and they're not gonna just pack it in and go out of business so what else would they do?

The automakers are in this[1] situation.

[1] https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/billingsgazette...

They'd be happy to build 75mpg tin cans for the consenting adults who want them but the amount of hand wringing that would cause (were it even legal in any practical sense) would start a fire. I'm already imagining the Frontline intro now "Mrs Soandso's son was driving one of these when he rear ended a semi trailer..."
Link to the actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04086-x

This is a twist on an old theme (just add machine learning!), where, previously, the machines would make the conjectures, and humans would prove them. In this case, it's more along the lines of the machine noticing that certain things are related, which inspires humans to prove that relationship, which eventually leads to the solution of a big, outstanding conjecture.

Here is a paper about automated conjecturing in graph theory, if you want to see the other side of the coin. No cool ML stuff, but fun nonetheless: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002437950...
Inflation is a vital part of our economy.

Its how 'growth' remains 'sustainable'.

(both of those words doin' ALLL the work in Consumer Capitalism)

Hyperinflation is NOT happening right now.

Stop watching Fox.

PS: There is absolutely a ridiculous housing bubble right now. AGAIN. Worry about that.
Not really. Cloudflare could have used their rust implementation for doing a fair comparison, instead they compared a beta product to a stable product. It's not like CF didn't have a choice to make a fair comparison.
Kudos to Trello as well though - their json export is really really good. It has everything required in it to recreate the board. Hopefully they don't deprecate that part of it.
How about cases where there's not much data involved but it's still questionable whether or not the data is legal to share?

Leaked encryption keys for example come to mind, but I'm sure there's other examples.
In the context of "should I use Cloudflare or Fastly as my edge", I lean Cloudflare. That said, I enjoyed listening to the GraphCDN crew choosing Fastly[1] – one crucial feather in the hat being cache invalidation[2] (miss ya, Phil Karlton) – and it sounds like a solid choice.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpmpTJc_SP0
[2]: https://graphcdn.io/docs/how-to/purge-the-cache
The climate favoring war is one in which the US slowly tears itself apart to appease sensibilities like this.

I think an entire generation of failed Chinese appeasement is enough — look at the damage it’s done to the American working and middle classes!
Interesting! After 2 years, I'm down to 1 hour of battery life in my second generation AirPods. Fortunately I use one at a time, so I just swap back and forth between them when one dies.

My bigger issue is that my AirPods no longer give a warning when they're getting low on battery. The first time the sound chimes marks 3 seconds until it's about to die. I'm left scrambling to get my other one out as my phone reverts to handset audio (in my pocket).
> Somaliland

Huh ?
Cloudflare not allowing benchmarks in their TOS is very sketchy, that puts them in the same tier as Oracle.

Cloudflare have pulled enough shady stuff now that they've fallen out of my favor. Their generous free product bought them a lot of community goodwill but their real face has been showing the past few years.
Based on their comment history, I interpreted this as unmarked-sarcasm slash pithy-witty driveby, that isn't meant to be taken seriously or contribute usefully to the discussion.
You've misunderstood me. I'm saying your previous comment implied that someone else must think the website is poorly made when they call it unprofessional.
I bought the gen3 and returned them for gen2. Two reasons, but the main one was comfort. I forget the gen2's are in my ears. The gen3's were painful.

Second reason: gen3's require Monterey for macOS integration. A painful week-long exchange with Apple support brought this out.
Or you know maybe we should insist that the people driving a ton of steel at high speed use their lights.
No, there is real psychological research behind this.

If you charge people for something, it kicks their perception of the act into a different category. That in turn effects how they think about the interaction and what their sense of entitlement and expectations are in ways that can be counter-intuitive.

A famous related study is: https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/23/what-makes-people-do-wha...

They found that when daycares fined parents for picking up their kids late, the result was parents picking them up even later. Because, without the fine, parents treated the pick-up time as a moral/social obligation that they did not want to uphold. Once the fine was introduced, they treated this as a simple financial transaction where if it's worth it to pay the extra to pick them up later, why not?
I would have thought the UK way was more efficient because you can cross diagonally? In the US system you have to wait for two sets of lights to cross diagonally.
I'll acknowledge that this is a minority opinion, but it's not totally without support. E.g., Nate Silver agrees: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/should-rumors-like-the-...

I'm also skeptical of the claim that the Steele dossier had any major long-term consequences at all, but I suppose that's a difficult question to resolve.
Extremely nerdy sub-detail -- M-profile actually has all the handling for the Thumb-to-Arm switch architecturally, with the LSB of a branch target being significant and a T bit in the PSR to tell you what mode you're in, which you can set to 0. It's just that attempting to actually execute an insn with PSR.T==0 will trigger a UsageFault :-) (The CPU is even required to fetch the insn from memory first -- a MPU fault will take precedence over the T-bit-clear fault.)
Well, I'm a few days late but I'm going to leave this here if it can help someone else.

If Ubuntu works like Fedora in this regard, it probably switched from Wayland to Xorg when you installed the proprietary Nvidia driver. The Wayland session supports touchpad gestures natively, but the Xorg one doesn't. You can install something like libinput-gestures[1] to replicate the functionality, with the caveat that the gestures won't be triggered until you lift your fingers off the touchpad. (On Wayland the interface reacts to the gestures as you swipe.)

Ubuntu switching 'silently' to Xorg is actually working as intended because Nvidia's support for Wayland was somewhat experimental until very recently. It's getting better though, and it's now officially supported on Fedora 35.

[1] https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures
A Cautionary Tale of Co-founder betrayal (2016)
Social Recovery is one of a couple methods people have proposed:

https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html
The adversaries mentioned in the article are highly sophisticated and seem to have access to a great amount of resources. They may be, and some would probably say they likely are, working for nation states.

Given a situation where your adversary is a nation state, how does crypto fix anything? How is crypto not in the end just “proof-of-resources”? Nation state wins.

The article touches on trust models and personally I think it would be a better solution to introduce some kind of manual trust into the routing. If there’s one thing Tor does not need, it’s crypto-“currencies”.
Should have (2017) in the title.

Indeed cool to program julia directly on the GPU and Julia on GPU and this has further evolved since then, see https://juliagpu.org/
The answer is right on the surface, but not usually spoken about very openly:

Intergenerational wealth transfer. Every single millennial home-owner that I know (myself included) received a very generous gift from their parents, or, in some cases, other surviving relatives (usually older than them).

The average gift size was approximately the size of the down-payment.

> They just live in different places, places that we don't think are good enough.

Young people generally live approximately where their parents live, regardless of what people think about that place. NYT found the average distance from parents that people live at, is approximately 18 miles. The reasons, again, should be fairly obvious.
its unfortunate that we'll never know what this data looked like in 2019 or before
From a research perspective, this is a win, and I dont want to downplay it.

Its interesting to consider this is the context of deepmind and other "commercial" AI research shops though, and how it stack up against the promises made about AI. One way to look at the headline is that researchers finally found something AI can do, and it turned out to be in some obscure area of number theory. Again, this is cool from a research perspective, connecting to disparate subjects to get a result. But if this is the kind of thing we're finding that AI is good at, what does it say about the commercial hype around it?
I use the No More Mobile plugin to fix that: https://github.com/spixy/NoMoreMobile
Cool to see this landing on HackerNews! I built this as a side project over a few weeks to test out some ideas we had, let us know if there is anything we can improve, would love to hear your comments
I like the idea of them being a commemorative coin. The analogy I've been using is that NFTs are like signatures. There may be a famous photo of Elvis that anyone can print, however, if someone had that photo printed and authentically signed by Elvis, it could be worth a lot more money, if people want to have the signature. If Elvis signed 500,000 of that same photo, the signature may not be worth much.

Perhaps in the future if NFTs get some sort of legal backing and therefore more enforced property rights, maybe it'll be different, however I think the analogy works well for now.

Thoughts?
Happenin' in Rwanda:

https://rumble.com/vq7mip-itm-for-adam-from-rwanda-where-goa...
>Ultimately, when I ask myself whether performance is more important than user privacy, I end up answering no.

FWIW: In the past when I sold and supported these kinds of tools, users were completely anonymized - you saw them as "requests" rather than users. In fact, the best tools I saw didn't even capture "all" users, but rather did sampling based on various attributes, IE: request was outside the standard deviation.
Yep. Apothecaries were the main source of routine medical care for the masses. To the extent that "an apothecaries wages" was an idiom to refer to their high incomes, somewhat pejoratively.

This is still the case in many communities worldwide, a good pharmacist is a real anchor for providing care for day-to-day health care. It's a great filtering mechanism too, the pharmacist as a buffer for frivolous doctor's visits.

Contrast that to here in the US. When's the last time somebody sought out direct medical care from a pharmacist? Pretty much the kneejerk always is go straight to a doctor, no matter how small the discomfort.
I worked at ISPs for many years, and have been running DNS servers since 1995. "Propagation" was a term we used to simplify explanations for end users. Generally, "it takes time for an update to show up because it is propagating." If we had to explain their site isn't working because caches need to expire, and it doesn't work for your friend yet because old values are still in his name-server's cache, etc. we'd be there all day.
> If nodes are expensive, doesn't nsa have more money than any given privacy focused individual or organizing?

So, two things are going on in this question.

The first is that I doubt KAX17 is the NSA... they might not even be a government! Most systems people build that rely on altruism are so easily attacked that a grad student can take control of them using resources at a University. I appreciate that the bar to prevent the NSA (or the CCP, or whatever other government surveillance network you are most concerned about) taking over your network is high, but the bar right now is just so low for most of these protocols that it should be embarrassing. If the NSA were really the only problem for Tor, I'd call that "a wild success".

The second, though, is that the goal should be to get big enough that the NSA would actually have a hard time dominating the resources of the pool. This requires being pretty large, but isn't insanely impossible. Let's look at Bitcoin for a moment: I am one of the first people to agree that "proof of work is probably an immoral way to solve this problem" (due to the externalized environmental effects of electricity usage and the such), but damn if it isn't effective, right? Bitcoin uses 0.5% of the world's electricity. That means to take control of half the Bitcoin network, the NSA would have to build out the infrastructure for buying (and using) an equivalent amount of the world's electricity... I bet that's hard, even for them.
You weren’t aware the batteries were not replaceable?
Is the mandatory retirement for 65 year olds a real thing at Intel? It sounds like it would be age discrimination or something.

Also Morris Chang was still leading TSMC until he was 86.
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I really appreciate your checking back. Not literally every time I pause, but if the paused frame “times out” and it drops me on the content screen with the Resume option, when I resume it will be back on 5.1 and I have to change it back to stereo. Definitely more annoying than required; subtitles options in the same menu are persistent after all!

PS4 Slim has no way to set the default. Per web search, other PS4 editions may have a workaround.

Yep, I blame Sony and Netflix. I suppose there simply aren’t enough of us watching movies on stereos for them to address our needs.