skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they trained a neural net on a vast dataset of decisions people took in 10,000 risky choice scenarios, then compared how accurately it predicted further decisions with respect to prospect theory. They found that prospect theory did pretty well, but the neural net showed its worth in highlighting where the theory broke down, that is, where its predictions failed.

Err, what now? The neural net now substitutes for experiments as well? Replication crisis solved, I guess. Just don't deal with humans at all and social science finally makes working predictions!

I stopped reading after this sentence.
Captain Tibes!
quite a bit of marijuana wrapped in saran wrap, and clumps of cocaine in little plastic tubes. The weed is pretty poor quality(oldish filled with seeds), but I like poor quality weed because I don't like to be too stoned. I am not an expert on coke, and tossed it after a few sniffs, I think it was pretty good quality, and at 2-3 dollars a gram its a steal, but I didn't want to be nuts when my gf's parents came back the next day. They are also evangelical christians and probably not okay with my curiosity so i flushed it.
Tools tend to be cheaper than trained humans.
I think this is just looking back with rose tinted glasses and assuming things have changed.

The game was always a rat race. As soon as you dug out of debt, your landlord would upgrade your house and you had an even bigger mortgage. That was in the original.

That said, the game is fun. Humans like feeling accomplished.
No, it's not. There is no reasonable syntax/IDL/schema/whatever you want to call it for which you wouldn't have a choice of implementing by code generation or by bytecode generation.

How is that not obvious? It would be like saying that "the problem with LISP is that it has to be interpreted", or that "the problem with C is that it can only be compiled to object code", when both such statements are clearly incorrect because of real-life counter-examples.

But there is something special to ASN.1. Instead of seeing that there's nothing new under the Sun when it comes to data encoding and schemata, and that there hasn't been anything new in that field really since S-expressions, ASN.1 has engendered a special hatred that blinds everyone to things that they would grant as obvious in other cases.
Only people who haven't run MySQL multi-master HA at scale praise it. In reality, it's a world of pain, where one single seemingly innocent query can take down the entire cluster.

Speaking from operation experience with MariaDB Galera and Percona Xtradb Cluster (which is also Galera).
ImageMagick might work well for making gifs.
Also: 22 Are Arrested in Thefts Of Kennedy Airport Cargo

https://archive.is/F6QPf

Those trains must be stalled there for long periods of time. I can't imagine they're robbing moving trains, but I could be wrong as thieves often prove to be very resourceful
> It seems like finding some way to prevent the thefts is better.

It seems like it should be possible to use locks which are harder to open in a short amount of time...but I suppose the cost of that would outweigh the current costs of the theft for the railroads.
The ITU-T ASN.1 specs have been free for a very long time now. They used to be non-free, and that was a big problem with ASN.1, but that was decades ago.
I have been informed by lawyer friends, who have read the YouTube terms of service, that viewing the content from YouTube in any way other than on the YouTube webpage using an interactive user agent is a violation of the terms of service and keeping the file sent to you is a copyright violation, because YouTube didn't authorise such use. Obviously your browser's cache is allowed to keep a partial local copy, because it's doing it in the approved process of showing you the content in the approved manner.
You venn diagram of engineering talent has good engineers in the side that don't understand the value proposition I posted above? It feels silly saying this but the idea that people working at these tech companies are shitty programmers that only know competitive programming is wrong.
ASN.1 in 1984 was not too broad. It was too simple, and it was too targeted to tag-length-value encoding rules (which are stupid -- TLV is a crutch that is only maybe useful when you lack a compiler, which early on was the case).

ASN.1 today is as broad as it needed to evolve to be because its users needed it.
Look at how bad people are at dealing with timezones. Having two similar but subtly different overloadings of the same terms is a recipe for confusion (having very distinct terms would actually be an improvement).
If you’re using - say - Debian all over your infra, introducing a whole new OS just for the bastions increases complexity without bringing any significant advantage.
I own Heimdal's ASN.1 compiler. It's a pleasure.
So a lot of the more complicated DS&A questions seem ridiculous, but I had to check on "inverting a binary tree" to see if it was really as simple as it sounded. It is. Just swap left and right, recursively. It's one of the easiest possible tests of being able to grok recursion[0]. You should be able to do this, even if you're self-taught or early in a college degree program.

Am I missing something? The only excuse I can imagine is interview anxiety, which is a real problem that deserves accommodation (bad explanations of the problem may play a role too, but you should be able to ask good clarifying questions). But if someone is really incapable of this very minor feat of programming, then I'm sorry but an interview process is right to reject them.

[0] Even if you don't literally write recursive Java methods, which you probably shouldn't, understanding recursive logic is critical all over the tech stack.
My mom was an OB/GYN nurse for many years. She worked in Active Labor with a nurse with the last name "Stork".
Stick to UTF8String. ASN.1 predates Unicode.
Funny enough, I was looking for jobs relatively recently and decided to apply to cruise but didn't bother because they wanted a cover letter.
ASN.1 is glorified S-expressions.

BER/DER/CER is binary S-expressions.
Yesterday I had fun to find out what's the best "opener" for Wordle.
I wrote quickly something about it here[0] and here[1].
Looks like "irate" is a good opener.

[0] https://dev.to/mnlwldr/opener-for-wordle-11k0

[1] https://twitter.com/mnlwldr/status/1481678410854412289
Did it briefly, took a look at how miserable it made everyone around me, and decided very quickly I'd rather make less money and be able to live life. Have many friends who live this lifestyle and are more "well off" in the sense that they make more money and drive more expensive cars but it always seems like a tragedy to me to see them burning up years in the prime of their life that they will never get back.
Protocol buffers is a tag-length-value encoding. It's got all the problems that DER and CER have. It's what happens when people decide to reinvent a wheel they don't understand.
I too am quite happy to have a noticably less dusty house since I boight a dryer. It's true the lint filter does not seem to catch everything and around the air vent the device gets dusty. Still an improvement over the previous situation.
It's more of a philosophical question really, but are AlphaGo and AlphaFold "producing" knowledge? AlphaGo plays go, AlphaFold predicts protein structure. They are useful tools, but I wouldn't call what they produce knowledge. However, as you say, their underlying models have certainly captured knowledge that we, as humans, do not comprehend yet.

So I would reformulate the observation of the article as follows: we have become extremely good at building useful tools that embeds knowledge that we do not understand.

If I may attempt an analogy, it reminds of Ptolemaic tables: quite useful at predicting planetary motions with some accuracy. What they lacked in understanding, they made up with accumulated data and complexity. Maybe AlphaFold is just that: a Ptolemaic table built on top of a huge swath of data.

We will probably build a lot of these tools in the future, as we have very powerful tools to build them. But I don't think they will replace a more fundamental understanding (that is to say science), that will simply lag behind.
Here's a reminder to upgrade to yt-dlp
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And then make sure it's backed up because you don't want to lose it.

Oh, and put it on a server somewhere if you want to share it with people without needing to email it to them.

Maybe transform it into HTML+CSS if you want it to look better than the browser default text, and change it a bit for people on mobiles.

You could also make a form and a service so you can update it when you're not using the one computer the original file is on too.

Oh dear, you accidently built your own app.
As MrWhoseTheBoss talks about Samsumg making mashup videos of youtube reviewers videos in https://youtu.be/9V0lXIK9DZQ

It can be confirmed that someone at samsung is using youtube-dl.

All this to say this is all about retaining control for the rich execs and companies and not for the artists.

But please do think of the artist and support bandcamp and other such stores. Not these thieves because of whom even taylor had to re-record her songs
I'm not so sure with the contents of some of the boxes being COVID tests or EpiPens if it can truly be considered "non-violent".
> Berkeley has 1 staff member for every 2 students at this point.

Fascinating. Got a citation for this?
The first thing I did when we got a computer at home with a modem was... to login to the minitel with my computer via an emulator downloaded on the internet, because all the cool stuff was there !! Mostly french video game guides since I was 11 lol

Then, I'd ask the minitel site to send me by fax the doc I wanted to read and it would call me and print on fax via the same emulator lol

The next few months, EVERYTHING moved to the internet and this stopped being necessary, but it was kinda cool... and HORRIBLY expensive vs the internet.
That's all that legal fluff that shows how insane our society is sometimes. In reality, the service owner is no longer in control of what happens to their content after the bits physically leave their premises. No amount of legalese is going to change that and help enforce this. That's just the way information works. And unlike our artificial laws enacted by governments in the interest of corporations as opposed to regular people, this is a law of physics, so it treats everyone equally and no one gets to choose whether to follow it or not.
I was asked the stupid implement a calculator question at least five times.
Manifold Markets
A bunch of previouslies:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Hmmm? Is someone experimenting with GPT-3 commenting on NH? Because it sure feels like it - the comment is mostly grammatical, uses approximately correct jargon, and completely nonsensical.
That analogy would work if countries with large numbers of privately owned handguns were as safe as (otherwise comparable) countries where such guns were banned.

I think we can agree at least that countries which ban communication tools have worse human rights records than countries which don't restrict them as much.

Also, I don't dispute the media industry's premise that a government which had complete control over all software installed on people's computers could decide to reduce the amount of copyright infringement.
> Responsibility for policing the railroad right of way falls on Union Pacific Police... not local agencies like LAPD

So is 'Union Pacific Police' just a security company, or do you guys in the US actually have private businesses with their own police? Because that sounds pretty dystopian
Can you elucidate the problems you ran into on MacOS ?
Yeah my switch from minitel to internet was quick when my parents compared the bills lol.
> Nor was Kyle Rittenhouse a "mass shooter" that ambushed innocent civil rights demonstrators.

He did shoot some people with a high powered rifle in public though, which in most parts of the world is something that you wouldn't get acquitted for.
Newly discovered asteroid, named “2022 AE1”, at top of Sentry's impact risk list
Don't think you would want to be walking around with someone else's package. Taking just the item gives some plausible deniability and there is probably no way to find the actual package that an item was taken from at that scale.
Oh for sure I agree, like the prospect of dealing with sexual abuse with a direct family member over the length of a childhood adolescence and perhaps adulthood, and the various emergent effects certainly registers as several orders of magnitude more impactful than my experiences. And being that mine was coercive and not forcible, I don't have that direct experience. There's a wide gamut to run and I'm not intent on discounting anybody's experience. I'm more concerned with the amplification of that, y'know? Exacerbating the damage of people who've already been compromised.

As to the long-range effects, I don't really have a high resolution reference point pre- and post-incident, and history being what it is I've no control to compare against so I don't know how, if at all my behaviors are and were adjusted.
Not sure how to feel about education and healthcare being a trillion dollar industry. When will we realise that people's lives are far more important than money.
Two very funny things happened then:

a) ASN.1 got XML Encoding Rules (XER), so you can use XML w/ ASN.1 as the schema language, which really, mostly is about supporting existing ASN.1-based protocols but with XML because well, you know, XML was all the rage,

and

b), FastInfoSet happened, which is an ASN.1 PER-based "compression" of XML because well, you know, XML is too verbose and unwieldy.

I [bleep] you not, that happened.

Evidence that there's nothing wrong with ASN.1 the syntax (and that's all it is, syntax and semantics, with a side of pluggable encoding rules where you can make them all up the way you want). Everything that's wrong with ASN.1 is either that which is wrong with BER/DER/CER (plenty), or that which is wrong with people's perception of ASN.1 (also plenty).
They've always been slow for me. My first order in November 2020, I think it took three weeks from ordering to receipt. The following two orders haven't been quite as bad, but there was a noticeable delay.
Agree 100%.

I don't understand the need for dryers. The houses I've lived in have always had drying racks in the laundry, next to the washing machine and central heating boiler.

Clothes get taken out of the washing machine, hung on the drying rack, and 6-24 hours later they are dry. Works 365 days a year, regardless of weather. Free.

In my current place, the drying racks are wall-mounted and foldable, and push back against the wall when not in use. Previously I've had ceiling mounted ones.
Not at all, if you would say "A window manager isn't that difficult to make, that's why we have so many.", I would agree.

A desktop environment is so much more, is a full stack development experience, with development tooling, APIs, and UI/UX workflows that users can be confident they work across most applications unless they go out of their way not to support the native idioms of the desktop environment being used.

Most of those "so many experiments" fail at being half as good GNOME/KDE are at being a full desktop environment as other desktop and mobile platforms are.
Indoor heating is often gas fired, or worse. This means that any heater that uses a heatpump, which is every dryer nowadays, is going to beat your house heater in terms of efficiency by a factor of 5 or so.

Plus, your house would get humid fast with indoor drying. Around here people don't often have aircos that can dehumidify, so opening the windows is the only solution, reducing efficiency even further. And keeping the moist inside also causes heating costs to go up, since you've just increased the thermal mass of your air. Plus, moist indoor air has adverse health effects of its own. Plus: I'd basically need to reserve a room just for drying.

No, a dryer is on all accounts the better solution.
No mention of sshguard or fail2ban?
> And the worst part is, they might win

Might? They will win, is it not obvious at this point that every single app in the near future will be sandboxed in some way? The unix grey beards had a couple decades to prove they could write secure software and they failed.
Very few people want to actually defund the police. But try being a black friend of mine, who got thrown out of his car without resisting and beaten so bad he had to go to an ICU, purely because he was driving a car that “matched the description” (that didn’t even match the color) of a crime in the area, and perhaps you can begin to understand why the “other side” is frustrated…

And let me guess. You think these train robberies happen because they defunded the police in their area…?
I remember chatting with non-kids as a kid ahaha and we'd go with my friends to meetup chats and just bullshit around. The internet exploded this ofc, and I suppose you've been to the Skyrock IRC web frontend in your youth, which was the seediest place for us at the time :D
Find a job from 3D world country
Engineer.
Currently I am working as a SaaS Manager.
Well versed in IT products and services. I know several languages.
I will help with small projects + take over important processes in the company. Very experienced on US market.
It's very difficult to make a lock that is really secure. Bolt cutters and battery powered saws / grinders are very powerful, portable and effective tools to cut through metal.
It is hardly a clone when it lacks the Objective-C/Swift userspace from macOS.

This has been the problem from GNU/Linux desktop for ages, the Look gets cloned, yet the Feel dies along the way.
I am well aware of the colloquial term "Defund the police" which is often met by "No, not literally defund it". But the reality is that there is a strong support to reduce resources and move towards soft-policing.

Have you been to the Bay Area? Apartment complexes and condominiums are hardened like castles while their kids play in the safe courtyards and the outside is rotting to the point of unsafe for male padestrians, let alone women and kids. These are the same people voting for these policies. Completely deranged.
Dust is a real problem too, not just for people with asthma. It collects in your lungs just like fine particulates can, and can cause infections.
After Effects has a feature called "motion sketch" which does this for video. It's a little bit harder to get up and running, though.
Reason isn't an anthropocentric concept at all. Knowledge isn't even produced. Knowledge is the subjective representation of facts, objects, skills and so forth. What's being produced by something like Alphafold is data, interpreting that data by means of reason and abstracting it into a model is what we call knowledge. The entire process is science.

And the first point you make is very important. The fact that we have neural nets in our heads that we didn't and don't really understand hasn't changed anything about what science is. We reason about the world and we do science because having general models about the world we are in is more powerful than merely collecting or correlating data. And that will be the case for any kind of intelligence.
Hi! Please refer to my previous comment.
The internet also was billed by the phone companies at first ! I suppose everywhere was the same but this was not like a surprising thing when we had only one telco company around 2000.
Vimpact 19.83 km/s
Diameter 69m
Mass 4.5e+8 kg

Impact probability 6.0e-4
They just used him as a placeholder to represent something modern in my opinion, likely with dismissive intent.
Yes, we'd go to gay minitel sites as kids to giggle at their personals...
And Rome would endure for another thousand years, give or take, after Hadrian, even if its capital wasn't in Italy anymore...
> Railroad police are certified state law enforcement officers with investigative and arrest powers both on and off railroad property in most states. They also have interstate law enforcement authority pursuant to federal law.

> The railroad police force dates to the mid-1800s, when the number of U.S. Marshals was insufficient to police America's growing rail network. Members were called Pinkertons, named after their originator, Alan Pinkerton. Today, each Class I railroad employs Special Agents across the country to protect America’s rail network.

https://www.up.com/aboutup/community/safety/special_agents/i...

It's just police who are probably paid by that business. That makes sense to me for a large business like this. If anything they're not doing a good enough job here.
Average time needed to get into a container (X) needs to be > average time train pauses (Y). This seems like it should be a solvable problem.

For example, just thinking out loud, what about some sort of container door hinge mechanism which takes five minutes (or an adjustable amount of time) to open the door?
It's very weird, but i can't shake the feeling that this article always uses Facebook examples for positive things (well working algorithms, putting Zuckerberg right up to newton), but very negative towards Google (biased search results, misleading algorithms). It might not be on purpose, or it might really just be in my head, but I found it super weird.
I might even push it to 2006 and TES Oblivion. With both cosmetic and technically power DLC. Horse armour was pretty bad, but then some addons(not Shivering Isle) clearly were little content, but making game easier by giving free stuff...
Former child prodigy Ruth Slenczynska will release a new album at the age of 97
I wonder if it's organized or just like kids in a candy store. There's so much to steal, I wonder if there's need for conflict or management.
This Enlightenment?

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened

Definitly a good choice. /s

Enlightenment was a nice window manager back in the mid-1990's, nowadays who cares if it still compiles.
Most of the substitutes you might want to pick are specific to a particular domain (webdev, for example). If you run a big company, you want to give a generic interview that gives you signal on a candidate's fit with a wide variety of teams that touch many domains. So you abstract away the domain-specific parts of the task until you have something that is broad enough to apply to many subdomains... and now you're doing DSA interviews, because DSA is exactly the bits of coding that are generic, abstract, and applicable to many domains.
There's also the type parameters proposal document which covers a lot of ground.

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...
It's an interesting philosophical question whether a more complex theory and a small amount of invisible matter or a simpler theory and a large amount of invisible matter is the simpler combination.

In any case, I think that any modified theory of gravitation has to fight an uphill battle because it seems to be easy to come up with a configuration of dark matter that explains any observation. That's my biggest grievance with DM, btw.: It doesn't make any predictions that could be used to falsify it, at least not in a sense that I could intuitively understand it. Effectively, it appears to act as a completely free parameter, distributed however we need it at the moment.
> 0.060% chance of Earth impact

> 1 in 1,700 odds of impact

> 99.94% chance the asteroid will miss the Earth

Incidentally, it's worth watching that film 'Dont Look Up' on Netflix.
For the “in the US” section, you’re probably right. Perhaps he’s from abroad. I was raised in a superblock-style neighborhood. Lived on the 6th floor (which would be the 7th to Americans)! Honestly, only the mid wealthy lived in non-flats. Everyone else had a flat.