skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure who this would make sense for? For 2 hours work at $5 an hour at a fast food job say anyone can raise the capital they need to buy a domain name. This would be preferable to diluting the business. The kicker is the founder doesn’t own the domain so they now have a real headache if they are successful.

I suspect if an idea is not good enough for say a $1M valuation its probably not worth investing in as an angel? You want to inject money to help develop and prove the idea. For such low valuations someone should be buying 100%. If there is nothing to show and no domain name, flip some burgers then register the domain.
And yet, somehow, all the other manufacturers are not bumping the price at wholesale.

I'm confused.
I never understood this one size fits all approach of a lot of companies. Controlled opposition would often result in higher market penetration and more net happiness
I think "deserves" is a better word than "deserved".

The punishment for grossly negligent handling of PII should not be a childish website defacement, and should not be from enforced by vigilantes. Obviously.

The punishment for mishandling PII like this should be a painful fine, a rigorous externally imposed technical audit, and possibly civil/criminal implications for senior leadership.

(If the last one sounds unreasonable, consider Equifax. Many executives in charge of security orgs do not have technical degrees and, more importantly, have not booked any time in the trenches. Being self-taught and having non-engineering degrees can be okay, but combining that with no in-the-trenches experience is inexcusable. Assignment security to corporate politicians who don't understand the work that they are managing should be criminally negligent.)
>The consumer reports reliability thing just seems like a meme at this point that doesn’t ring true for most people either in importance or reality.

It’s based on, well…consumer reports of reliability issues so it seems like it’s quite literally based on (perceived) reality.
Those of us who have been shooting large digital cameras for the past decade and are some times sad that our photos often come out unsharp in poor light compared to smartphones can at least take some joy in this “no free lunch” demonstration.

If this is due to stabilization and not some background blur face detection then it’s probably not something you can (or would want to) disable. Taking a telephoto shot with a tiny sensor in something other than great light (even a heavy overcast is often not enough) will require a lot of software processing. I’m
not sure exactly what happened here but I’m pretty sure everyone asking for “unmodified raw photos” to be produced don’t understand what they are asking for. Those “unmodified” photos would be unusable in most cases outside very bright conditions.
Yes but only if you stand on a point, not in moving traffic.

E.g. if you are on a bike you can have a hyper small turning radius, but only if you mover very very slow (but not too slow ;) ).

The problem is requiring such a radius would be a safety hazard, as people would all the time not get the turn due to driving to fast, even if they literally started driving a moment ago due to a red traffic light.
Forget the imagined future. What's needed now is a sled complete with batteries and electric motor(s) utilizing regular tires. You know how many people in places like Detroit have the skill set to build electric cars with that small amount of help? Create a fiberglass body, source an interior and software and you're in business.

Admittedly you won't compete against Tesla or the Big 3 but there are plenty of niches where you might. They won't all be sports cars either. Taxis, police cars or special purpose delivery vehicles.

There are small profitable niches where no one has even entertained the idea of battery powered cars yet. I love the idea of a one pizza car company operating out of what now is an abandoned warehouse in Detroit.
At least with USB-C, I no longer have to try 3 times before I get the plug the right way round to fit in the device, as happened with Mini- and Micro-USB. Always puzzled me that, given there were only 2 possible orientations to choose from.
I’d have still expected them be writable because unlike CDs, writing a magnetic field isn’t destructive. But what I meant was whether cheap blank disks used a slightly different (cheaper) magnetic alloy with a shorter read/write limit than commercial software where they maybe spent a little more knowing it needed to be read often?

I do remember cassettes had different quality magnetic strips but I don’t know if the same was ever true for disks too… so it’s probably bonkers. I’m just throwing some ideas around without much thought. :)

It might just be a case that college kid me was less careful with his disks than you were.

More recently though, I have unboxed my old collection of 3” (not 3.5” but literally 3 inch) floppies for the Amstrad CPC 464 and they almost all worked despite being nearly 40 years old. So I definitely believe you when you post about your success rate.
Curious why this is making the news now. I noticed trehalose as an ingredient on something and looked it up and saw the association then. I think the data was trending there even before this 2018 study.

That being said I'm vegan and have food allergies so I'm always looking at ingredients. That being said trehalose is in food naturally as well (see link below).

Fun fact this was isolated from a chemical produced by Weevils, it's kind of like a natural antifreeze so they can stay alive in the winter:
https://www.chemeurope.com/en/encyclopedia/Trehalose.html
This is the same mechanism that allowed the tardigrades in that dumb "quantum" experiment to stay alive - using trehalose instead of glucose under harsh conditions
Yes, but it can be expected that Tesla thoroughly tested the cornercase of sudden loss of vision of the cameras.
most USA public schools are this way as well, with the added bonus of them being funded primarily by property taxes of the locality in which they reside. So you have wealthy families buying homes in areas with nice schools, bringing up the real estate prices, which increases the funding of the school, which makes the school better, which attracts more wealthy families... etc
Having a conscience is good, but don't be too hard on yourself old friend.
okay but even then it botches it
See the above example notebook

If node or edge attribute information is useful for clustering, such as not just account IDs but say entity or event sizes & time, you may want to see sub-cluster separation based on that. A naive initial UMAP approach (I think the OP's intuition) is to ignore your graph structure and run UMAP (or t-SNE, PCA, k-means, ...) on your independent entities. No graph data involved (initially). Then you will get a scatterplot of entities where those with similar values across their features are near each other. The notebook I linked shows how to compute the UMAP on such a table. Then, instead of showing a scatter plot, you can then draw edges between neighboring entities and play with it: it's an entity similarity graph! That's the more interesting part of the notebook, and a big step up over how we see most UMAP workflows go.

However, it sounds like you already have a graph, which is more structure for clustering than out-of-the-box UMAP (PCA, ...) leverages. When you also have a graph of edges between those entities, such as causal events, and maybe even weights, you can also combine the similarity graph + yours, and run the graph clustering on the combined result. The clustering would then use both the node feature similarity and your existing graph knowledge. The UMAP similarity edges are likely more correlative & speculative than your physical graph's edges, so when running graph clustering, it often helps to assign different edge weights based on your confidence in each edge.

There are more tricks you can play here. A big one for property graphs is propagating node/edge features to nearby nodes (ex: "total connected bytes/events/$/etc.") so that the UMAP has surrounding graph information available. This starts to generalize to graph neural nets (b/c you're doing label propagation), and something we're actively looking into and are happy to chat w/ folks about: feel free to email or swing by our Slack :)
But Lysenko argued that the inheritance of acquired characteristics was more philosophically akin to Marxist philosophy than was the Mendelian genetics championed by Europeans and Americans, as well as the vast majority of Soviet geneticists. Stalin, who was promoting the idea that if the economy was transformed, everything would change for all and the generations to come, was enamored with Lysenko’s idea that manipulating the conditions of the environment changed not only the genetics of the organisms in that environment, but their descendants as well

A dictator and a sycophantic scientific advisor is a poisonous mix.
Setting Up Git on FreeBSD
I never met the guy. It's entirely possible he was a raging racist. I've read some of the papers in question, though, and while it's been some years and maybe I missed the white pointy hoods, I don't remember the racism in his writing, and I think the author at Scientific American has misread the work.

E O Wilson never said anything like "genes determine who's smart and who's dumb," which would be racist. He said something like "genes are a contributing factor," and fuckall, if that's racist then just pull the plug on science.
> The community seems to be moving towards functional programming/away from classes..

Anecdotal observation follows:

In the span of my career so far it looks like the community moved from imperative programming with a few classes/prototypes sprinkled in there, to imperative programming with a few lambdas and HOF sprinkled in there.

I've yet to come across anything significantly functional or OO in the wild, it's still mostly plain old data mutable structures and for loops.
> A quality called "intelligence" that does not engender impulse control isn't actually intelligence, eh?

I mean, that's pretty dependent on the definition of intelligence.

Going off a dictionary definition:

> the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

versus wisdom:

> the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise.

That to me sounds like every place you're saying intelligence, you mean wisdom. Redefining intelligence to wisdom isn't a thing, because words have meaning.

The relationship being that intelligence makes acquiring wisdom faster. There isn't a strict requirement between the two.

> What's the point of "intelligence" that gives no "leverage"

Self enrichment/gratification/entertainment.
I wonder if this has any implications over iPhone (or cellphones in general) photos in court.

This might be brought up to overturn any photo evidence from phones.
Article is dated "Wed 8 Sep 2021".
This sounds like a weird rationalization for an absurd case of technical ignorance. Like when people defended nuking hurricanes or using UV lights as a Covid therapy.
Ya..that one is particularly sad because it was recent. Don't know why they felt the need to botch that.
Depends on enforcement. We tend to hoist ours when getting to Germany because both the police and coast guard actually care and will fine you in typical German fashion. Otherwise, pretty much never.
I'm not (directly) saying it's a safety issue, I'm saying it's a compliance issue. It is clear that it needs fixed because it's clear that this function is required by law.
Can advertisers be legally forced to use these mathematical techniques?

Can we perhaps have a trusted third party which anonymizes data for these companies?
Was talking about "it'd sell itself". Good technology often doesn't sell itself.
Which Errors to Focus On?
The cause of this is image-stacking.

The phone takes ~20 frames, over 0.2 seconds. In that time, lots of people and things in the frame move.

Optical flow is used to track all moving parts of the image, and then 'undo' any movement, aligning all parts of the image.

Then the frames are combined, usually by, for each pixel, taking something like the median or throwing out outliers and using the average.

When the optical flow fails to track an object in more than half the frames, the 'outliers' that are thrown out can in fact be the image content you wanted.

It happens with leaves a lot because they can flutter fast from one frame to the next, so tracking each individual leaf is hard. A few bad tracking results on more than half the frames, and all you end up seeing is leaves where there should be a face..
The gift economy part was good, the poorly read philosophy on communism lacking in class consciousness was yawn. Points for recognizing authoritarianism from capitalism. Negative points for assuming the US government was designed to secure liberty for all rather than the landed classes.
As far as I’m aware, the boosters are not specific to any variant. Aren’t they the same formula as the initial mRNA doses?
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant it is the only defensible position to take if you are trying to instate vaccine mandate for school children. Considering children's risk for covid, having the primary worry be their own health is pretty hard to defend.
As an Indian I can assure you that there are only a handful of bus stop in any major city which have the bus number written on them.

There is a general apathy of service providers to the users.

Dormitories for workers is a relatively new concept and not very common, it is quite possible that it was quickly built, was a penny pinching contractor or an all in all general apathy which is not that very uncommon.

Also to note that these are remote dormitories managed by subcontractors, this abuse is very common (even reminds me of a case of foreign berry pickers in Sweden).

There is probably no evil hand except these did not not figure highly on their priority list.
The parent is copy/pasting from the linked press release from Trump which exclusively links to donaldtrumpcampaign.cmail20.com. They know they're arguing in bad faith.
What religion? Because as I'm sure you well know, there is no such thing as "religion" per se. I'd challenge you to point to someone who is an adherent of "religion", as opposed to some particular faith (which we all have, btw).

I am not aware, for example, of any major religious tradition that does not accept human beings as animals. Indeed, I'd have to ask you: what is it to be an animal, in your view, that your straw man religious person would find objectionable? For Aristotle, an animal is just a living organism (and therefore something with a body) with the capacity for locomotion. What makes human beings especially different from all known animals is rationality (and according to an ontological, as opposed to phylogenetic classification, any rational animal, extraterrestrial or not, would qualify as "human"). Those animals lacking rationality (and free choice) have traditionally been called beasts. Perhaps your equivocation trades on the common use of "animal" to mean "beast", but then it is an entirely uninteresting criticism. So yes, there is something special about having a rational nature.

> So we can't look at human sexuality, for example, except in the context of special rules.

This is really vague. What rules? Is that code for morality? As rational animals with the freedom to choose our actions, we are absolutely subject to morality. Beasts that merely react to impulses and have no choice in the matter are not moral agents, but we are because we are rational. Thus a man who rapes a woman is behaving immorally to the degree that he understands what he is doing and to the degree that he has a choice (those with severe mental deficits or suffering from psychosis might be examples of those who cannot be faulted, morally speaking). And what makes certain sexual behaviors wrong? That they frustrates the nature of the human sexual act. These aren't rules, but rather principles governing the teleological order of the faculties involved, and sexuality is not special in this regard, though perhaps dangerous (interesting that you chose that particular example). It is also immoral to lie because speech is intrinsically ordered toward communicating truth (note the presumption we make about speech in this regard; lying would not work otherwise). It is immoral to stick a pencil in your eye because it frustrates the faculty of sight. It is immoral to do drugs because they frustrate the exercise of reason. Happiness is living in conformity with one's nature; misery is to act contrary to it. Human beings struggle with living well, and living badly can be easier than living well, especially once you've accumulated bad habits. It does not follow that departures from what we ought somehow disprove the existence of the ought.
It makes it seem like your product might be related to porn, like describing something as "PornHub for X"
I started writing a new SQL parser that just transforms the query...this was one of the features. The other being a syntax for group-wise max queries which are just crazy dumb to write efficiently in MySQL.
Instead of Consumer Reports, how about JD Power? Every car company that brags about ratings quotes their JD Power rating first and foremost. Tesla is 30 out of 33 on JD Power.
NYC air quality, city demographics and public hearing data on Filecoin network
Slower, too.

the Citroen Autonomous Mobility Vision has a top speed of only 25 km/h.

Which is about 15.5 mph, for us backwards Americans. I think I’m faster than that on my cheap, shitty junker of a bicycle.
How Amateur Radio Fanatics Launched the World's First Communications Satellite
> In that sense, very limited use-rights are actually required

Specifically, what use rights does an NFT grant?

For photographs (and I have a small gallery of them collected over the years in art festivals and galleries), they're hanging on my wall... though I can't publicly display them (that's part of the copyright).

If I sell a print of a digital image (that I captured with a camera) and I sell a NFT of the same digital image, what are the differences in the use rights that the two buyers have?

If the digital image, hosted on a server that I maintain goes offline (I didn't pay my network solutions bill and someone else buys the domain), what does does the NFT retain rights to?
did it get the crux right?
To me this reads like Stallman got mad a company said no to him and because of that decided to rewrite UNIX because idk
The Model Y would be pretty much undrivable without a camera. The Model 3 is also pretty bad about rear visibility, but the lack of visibility out the back of the Model Y is shocking.
Your post isn't really an argument. It's just contradiction.

The whole point of calling rights "ineffective" is to say that this idea of fundamental rights that other people aren't obligated to provide to you has no utility. Your definition doesn't really contain any evidence to the contrary.
Interesting that they grouped together 12-34 and 34-64 age groups for death statistics table, noting that "For tables showing hospitalizations by vaccination status and deaths by vaccination status, age groups are collapsed to protect privacy"

Does it mean that number of deaths throughout the year in 12-34 age group is so low that you can guess who is who?
how do we exclude the possibility that we are just seeing a leaf on its way falling (or blowing) between the subject that the photographer?

Logically an event like that would be followed by the iphone not detecting a face, and therefore not applying its usual face-related black-box features?

Supposing this is the case and is 'bad', what exactly do we expect 'better behaviour' would mean in this situation?
Of course it needs to be fixed.
Nope. That can come after responsible disclosure. Did they try the responsible path first? Looks like they notified and then kept going for another 10 days
The rear camera MAY fail issue seems pretty benign.

When it fails go get it fixed?

Or is that no longer a permitted approach.

These recalls used to be for things major. Now we are getting a recall over what would be a warranty claim? Can they not just extend warranty coverage in this year to something like 10 years?
Gimmicks? Something that a company needs to invent to keep selling new versions of their product.
> SELECT -col1, -col14 FROM table LIMIT 50;

This is already valid SQL.
Example: SELECT -col1, -col4 FROM (SELECT 1 AS col1, 2 AS col4) AS tbl;

Do you think seriously that a new meaning could ever be attached to that syntax?
Notice how even the people suggesting the name is inappropriate aren't actually offended by it.

The name is great. Keep it.
What am I missing? The picture "Copy Events by Post Score"[0] on that page plots, for posts with various point scores, how many times they were copied. But for 0 - 100 on the x-axis, this is a virtually clean, thin, solid curve, as if all posts with 45 points, say, were copied exactly 13 times, all posts with 46 points, 14 times etc. I don't get why the data points are all on a single curve. That's odd, right?!

[0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hkdnDDP4Vx0XOMt_VWX09qKURy...
It’s a lot easier now with EKS etc maturing. I think people will develop some more wrappers to make things easier.

Regardless, the alternative mentioned (Serverless) comes with its own set of problems.
On an individual developer note, I think it's the Linus Torvalds / Steve Jobs effect. Lesser known developers see their arrogance [and arguable genius] and how they are idolised and want to emulate that.

On a corporate level, I dunno. The total and utter contempt with with companies like eBay treat their users is mind-blowing. And others are equally as bad. I suppose it's an arrogance that comes with having such a huge market share or dominant position that you don't really need to care about upsetting individuals, or even hundreds or thousands of individuals at a time.
It simply means that we no longer have measuring instruments who are used to draw accurate representation of the scene but seed samplers who are used to generate a representation of the scene, not necessarily accurately but artistically. Accuracy used to be the metric but someone figured out that most people are not after accuracy.

IMHO it's not fundamentally evil, it's just that it's not the thing we are used to. Wouldn't have caused a confusion if they used some other word instead of photograph.
Why shouldn't China convert its Foreign Reserves to commodities like grain?

Grain is worth more than fiat paper that's due to lose its value overnight, sooner or later.

(The US will NEVER repay its more than 30 trillion dollars of debt. It WILL default, probably sooner rather than later. On that day, the USD will be worth less than the paper it's printed on - just like happened to the Zimbabwe Dollar.)
I agree but not with current JavaScript modules. i would rather work with this:

import { functionA } from 'library';
import { functionB } from '../utils/core/abc';
import { functionC } from './a';

over:

from 'library' import { functionA };
from '../utils/core/abc' import { functionB };
from './a' import { functionC };
Battery car fires are much more likely to make it in to the news than your every day combustion engine vehicle fire which are far more numerous.