skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally out of beta! Good to see.
But I wonder if this to the authors point. You used to love fiddling with settings (I do as well) but modern software continuously makes that less rewarding.
Plastic chemicals may contribute to weight gain
aka there's been a lot of progress and people still like to say there hasn't been and that elon should be sued for fraud because it isn't a perfect self driving machine yet
> Ada is a good example here: the language has not evolved something like MISRA-C (it has evolved SPARK for formal verification, but I see that differently).

This may interest you: "In this document, we show how SPARK can be used to achieve high code quality with guarantees that go beyond what
would be feasible with MISRA C."

https://www.adacore.com/uploads/books/pdf/SPARK-Ada-for-MISR...
I wish Grafana would stop trying to make offerings that already exist and focus on making their dashboards and alerts as code usable.

I would even pay money for an actual offering that worked.
Researchers are asking why some countries were better prepared for Covid: Trust
Luddite but mixed with "Eliezer Yudkowsky" who is a researcher working on the problem of friendly AI (or whatever they're calling it these days). Basically trying to prevent skynet.

The GP is saying that once we have AGI, then "AGI is going to make the human race irrelevant" outweighs "AGI makes software devs irrelevant".
Why Are People Nostalgic for Early Pandemic Life?
My experience is that a11y is often not a priority and then one day it is suddenly the highest priority. It is not fun to have to drop everything you are doing and retrofit and/or redesign to avoid a lawsuit or losing a big contract.

The easiest thing you can do is run a linter with an a11y plugin to make sure you cover the basics. It can be annoying at first, but you'll get used to it.

A tool like axe (https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core) is good for checking your work and/or automating away some of the less obvious stuff. It provides both a Chrome plugin and an automated checker for CI.

Getting comfortable enough with this stuff that it no longer requires a ton of work is definitely a good goal. Your users will have a better time overall and you'll have peace of mind.
I have been to Singapore and my take on this is that the Bay Area has Valley Fair and Santana Row and the US has DisneyWorld too... enforced clean, structured, sanitized places are not in short supply in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_121

North Korea successfully stole tens of millions by hacking banks via SWIFT between 2015 and 20216 and probably several hundreds of millions in crypto currency in 2021 alone.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59990477

NK apparently has a very capable cyber warfare unit and hacking crypto currency wallets/exchanges is a major income for them.
Tech is always changing, so your current experience and qualifications are always on a timer regardless.

Personally, I enjoy solving problems with computers and rather dislike the tedium of actually writing and debugging software. If a ML model could take that off my hands I'd be ecstatic.
Authorization Patterns in GraphQL
The best there is right now is a playground on https://goose.ai/
Not only that, but throughout the years I've noticed people in that field tend to either develop on the kindness vector or going the bitter, snarky road. Great article!
Come now, I'm trying to inspire others to give it a go, like "the water's g-g-g-great!"
As a comparison, various types of insulation are rated for 60/90 minutes at 1000 degrees Celsius, while some types of brick are rated for 180 minutes. If this material can't sustain similar temperatures, it's unlikely it will be used in construction.
>secede from the national government over presumed grievances and now you’re leading some protest against it for something else I have to wonder if you’re not just an opportunist.

Who knows if this is correct, but if true, this doesn't seem contradictory to me. If a group want to secede and have freedom from federal oversight, it seems natural that they would also want to limit the federal power as long as they are stuck within the system.
your account was created 5 hours ago, this was posted 6 hours ago. you seem to be quite opinionated about this topic. any reason why that is?
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We need:

- Full stack web/UI (mostly Node.js, TypeScript, React)
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We're a small but growing team, and this is the ideal time to come in and be able to make a big impact while working alongside other smart and experienced developers.

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In practice the ESM support in Jest is blocked by a v8 dependency and not jest itself at this point. If you are able to nudge this issue that would be fantastic! https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/37648
That would be cool, but companies are often not forthcoming with the raw data needed to do such analysis independently (particularly if it could make them look bad).
I hope I don't get downvoted too badly for this, but do we have any statistics on the number of people who actually commit illegal acts (direct specific threats or acts, stalking, etc.) as a percent of the people post vitriolic online comments? I suspect it's a very small proportion. That isn't to excuse anything,
but I only have so big an emotional budget for outrage, and I prefer to prioritize my efforts to help people in keeping with real vs. perceived danger.
So tesla owners belong to some specific age group and that makes it safer?
The first example is almost correct, conditioned off a sentence description. The second example is the right idea, it just bit off more than it could chew when slicing it all together. Using string ops for binary manipulation in Python isn't even stupid; it can be faster in a lot of cases.

This feels a lot like screaming at a child for imperfect grammar.
Why, indeed.

There are dozens of studies based on publicly available data, e.g. https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj-2021-068665. I think they are a better starting point for a discussion about safety and public health than this rag.
Public knowledge of safety affects stock price and brand recognition. Will never happen.
Another example.

I recently watched Knowing (2009) based on Ebert's review. One of the things he wrote in that review was: "The film has sensational special effects, which again I won't describe."

I found myself wondering if we watched the same movie. I thought the special effects were pretty awful. Comparing the scene the subway crash to say, the train crash in Silver Streak (1976)[1] or Speed subway crash (1994)[2], I thought Knowing[3] was inferior and just looks terribly fake to me.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qPAOarQxaU

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US2bcpW7KFU

3. https://vimeo.com/117341659

Then there's the insane French Connection (1971) chase scene which they could never film today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzEloJ5venk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Connection_(film)#C...

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/entertainment/video...

https://nypost.com/2021/10/04/secrets-of-the-french-connecti...
There are a lot of bad uninformed takes in this thread, but I think this is the worst of them all.

First, CG has been part of films for more than 25 years now and it isn't a "great new toy".

More than that though, movies just aren't made like this. People don't go out with a camera and try to make something sequentially, they are planned from start to finish and refined for years before actual production.
This seems like a very good deal! Has anyone bought this before?
> Companies saying "trust us, we have the data to prove it" while keeping that data secret should be ignored.

While true, I do not think this is a great heuristic. How would the average person know whether the "data" is available? Most people don't even know what "data" really is. They have never heard of CSVs or SQL. We need a better signal for consumers to know what they can and can't trust.
There's certainly no logical contradiction there, right?

You have one group of Careful Carlas who always behave safely, lockdown or not. You also have a group of Reckless Rogers, standing too close to people in supermarkets and not washing their hands. If either of these two groups is too big, you won't see a positive effect from lockdowns.
Companies dont validate their claims, only provide data and statistics to back up marketing angles. There's no point to it either since it would still be a conflict of interest when you've researched your own product and found no errors in it.
> techniques are growing in capabilities exponentially, while we have a habit of extrapolating linearly

What does this even mean? How do you put a number on AI capability? You can say it is growing faster than people expect, but what is even exponential or linear growth in AI capability?
> Such a material could be used as a lightweight, durable coating for car parts or cell phones, or as a building material for bridges or other structures, says Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and the senior author of the new study.

Anyone else get immediately sidetracked by how metal the name "Carbon P. Dubbs" is? (and how unexpectedly apropos it is to chemical engineering?)

https://digging-history.com/2016/01/18/tombstone-tuesday-car...

Apparently his full name was "Carbon Petroleum Dubbs" and the relation to chemical engineering isn't really coincidental.
> I miss having the web as a resource. As a library of knowledge and a collection of weird and wonderful entertainment and subculture art.

This is becoming a meme. Yes, I also think Google results are getting worse.

But: The real underlying core reason for this is that the entire society has come online by now. You can't compare the old, elite web to the mainstream web of today.

At the end of the day, Google is just a machine optimizing for the masses.
> I truly hope there is a shift back to practical FX and 2d animation.

Most 2D animation these days is just CGI dressed up to look like 2D hand drawn animation. Actually, the reduced production costs is why we are seeing so many magna/light novel being translated into anime series, even if the underlying content isn't that great.
Step 1: Invent physical control panels with switches and buttons

Step 2: Invent touchscreens

Step 3: Invent touch-based control panels with switches and buttons

Step 4: Remove all shading and borders from touch-based control panels. Turn all switches and buttons into a hellish nightmare of clickable text. Use the same font color for clickable and unclickable text. Turn all backgrounds into slightly different shades of off-white. Remove all borders. Stop organizing functions by panel. Release six incompatible versions per year--
It is a video game rental company with some uninspiring financials. What more is there to GME?
> orthodoxy among designers

Is it? I see an awful lot of overwhelming pointless 'settings' crammed into weird corners all over the place, sometimes in ways where the default experience is just broken and long-term users just all learn they need to tick the appropriate settings to have an acceptable experience. Over time the settings proliferate and the settings page just becomes a dumping ground. Maybe designers (or project managers) need to take this 'design orthodoxy' more seriously.

The author’s own screenshots show a settings page with like 15+ separate pages of miscellaneous settings. Maybe there’s no other way to solve the design challenges in his app, but I doubt it. When he claims that “users love settings [...] just look at your own user behaviour,” he’s projecting his personal preference/compulsion for testing and analyzing trivial tweaks (maybe as a way to procrastinate from actually using the tool? or because thinking about tool design is more interesting to him than tool use?) onto other people.

E.g. when he suggests “Some details become annoying because they are so repetitive” the easy answer is: just cut those out! Why should users have to hunt around obscure corners of your tool for a way to eliminate the annoying gimmicks you added?

Note that it is entirely possible to have a very flexible, powerful set of tools that satisfy a wide variety of niche needs while having those tools available to all users in a sensible way, without any need to hunt through the "settings" page to access them. It just takes a lot of design effort to figure out how to break down user goals into parts, abstract them, make tools capable of handling those, and then teach users how to use them.

But trying to solve tool design problems without the crutch of adding extra checkboxes to your settings page doesn’t mean you have to cripple the software or prevent people from using it in their own way.
Glad to see mention of self-organized non-profit ISPs in France on HN homepage! I'm sure more people around here would be interested to learn how it works and maybe start their own, if you have english-speaking resources at hand :)

Congratulations on your network setup! It's impressive for such a low budget
I think it's fair to compare to the average driver. You may be not average by virtue of not being a teenager and not driving drunk, but you're not magically immune to being run over or crashed into by one of those. So even if a hypothetical FSD capable car would not drive one yota better than you do, it cwould still make you safer by virtue of making the surrounding environment safer.
> Just because most users don't use a thing doesn't mean it's not a useful thing to have. Even if almost never called the emergency services doesn't mean I don't want or need the ability to do so. Further, being able to adjust the cursor speed is great for improving accessibility.

I never said to remove settings entirely, merely to choose sensible defaults.

> What about what the users want to do? What entitles you to decide what is good for other people? That's just creepy as fuck.

This is a strange comment. It's literally the job of the designer to make sure users can do what they need to do in the application, I'm not sure how that's "creepy as fuck." But also, there's a notion of libertarian paternalism [0], ie give people choices but also have defaults that are defaulted to the better, healthier, more beneficial option so to speak, because the designer would know that most people may not change their settings. You wouldn't want your pointer speed to be excessively fast, that would just be annoying, so set the default at a reasonable level and let people change it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(book)#Libertarian_pater...

> Sunstein and Thaler state that "the libertarian aspect of our strategies lies in the straightforward insistence that, in general, people should be free to do what they like-and to opt out of undesirable arrangements if they want to do so".[18] The paternalistic portion of the term "lies in the claim that it is legitimate for choice architects to try to influence people's behavior in order to make their lives longer, healthier, and better".
Tired of typing? Just say it
I am a big fan of the `if [!] grep -q ...` pattern. I'd probably rank -q near the top of the list for shell scripts.
The second does not grant anything, so it's not applicable for this case. Consider "digital assault weapons ban" as the closest concept.
Ok I'll ask the question:

Will it fill the oceans with indestructible junk?
Where's the GoFundMe link?
I work in a business that looks super easy on the outside yet full of case studies that could go into business books. Don't run on assumptions. Ask those questions.
What a normal day for a dev looks like?

Can you meet the devs and discuss their workflow?

What's the backlog like?

These should give you some good indications
Plenty of things are stronger than steel on a per pound basis.

For instance, many aluminum alloys have about 60-80% the tensile strength of steel, but only 1/3rd the weight.
> North Korea is in the state of war with the United States

I'm not sure where this comes from, but you're now the second person I see on HN to say this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29896969). Is this "common knowledge" in the US or something?

Here is what I said the last time:

>> The US and KP are technically still at war (the Korean war stopped with a cease fire, not a treaty) and the US and its allies levy sanctions on them that hurt.

> Technically, I don't think the US and North Korea ever been at war. South Korea and North Korea are technically still at war though, as they signed the treaty with each other, not the US.
It's hard to say about old graves - after a few years a body is just dirt. Lots of strong claims being made about something that's pretty ambiguous.
Stopping certain forms of policy and not others is a way to make policy.
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Programmers do setup completely artificial contexts so AI can work.

None of the self driving systems where setup by giving the AI access to sensors, a car, and the drivers handbook and saying well you figure it out from there. The general trend is solve this greatly simplified problem, this more complex one, up to dealing with the real world.
> I'm most annoyed that people gave any weight to Tesla's safety statistics claims in the first place.

TSLA stock consistently made gains for a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't be paying attention let alone putting their weight in anything Tesla related.
Thank you for pointing me to the Catherine Project–it looks very interesting to me.
Ray casting is close to my heart as it's easy to understand and has a very high "effort to reward" ratio, especially to someone who is new to graphics programming. I built a game + engine around ray casting portals [1] (think the game Portal). It was a lot of fun trying to figure out how to bounce rays around a scene and intersect with different objects in the environment and immensely satisfying to have built the whole engine from the ground up. Though I'd probably not do it again. Your top-down ray debug view is very similar to one I came up with!

Some of the interesting bits of the engine are open source: https://github.com/gh123man/Portal-Raycaster

1. https://blog.sb1.io/gateescape/
It illustrates that CoPilot is generating maximum likelihood token strings and has no real understanding of the code.

That's what is happening here. There is no intelligence, just regurgitation. Randomization and maximum likelihood completion.

Just like with the competitive programming example, we're asking it to produce solutions that it has seen in its training set. If you ask for a nontrivial twist on one of those solutions, it fails.
Did you read the article? This saga is explicitly mentioned and does not detract from the authors point IMO.
How much does it cost to produce?
Can we build rocket that will go to Mars out of it?
Or the number of people eating cheapest junk food.

I wish I could align my springboard icons to the bottom. And choose a shiny metal shelf again instead of that acrylic bullshit, but that is just my bad taste.
"does not" or "should not" ?
At what point do we give up and realize that there is no one thing called intelligence, just a bunch of hacks that work pretty well for different things sometimes? I think that's probably where people keep failing here. The reason that we keep failing to find the special thing in every new field that AI conquers is because there's nothing special to actually find?
I mean, we could keep moving the goalposts, a sort of intelligence of the gaps argument? But this doesn't seem productive.
Looks like the engine is missing the fish-eye correction in the ray-cast calc. I love writing these engines for fun :)
Lol, at the people downvoting you. No retort even.

Joe Rogan talks about the largest range of controversial topics I've ever seen. He's willing to entertain ufo's, dmt, early hominid history, jfk assasination conspiracies, how plastics affect hormones, moon landing conspiracies, sasquatch, mermaids, the list goes on and on, the crazier the better. If people want to listen to him let them. If they want to say he's full of shit let them. But why are they so enraged if that's just who he is.

He talks about the weirdest things out there because its interesting, why even bother taking such an offensive stance against someone that talks about these things, it brings a world of possibilities? Like you're offended that a man who talks about sasquatch as if it could be real asserts the possibility, not as a matter of fact but just the possibility, that the state mandated policies towards the pandemic might not be the best policy? Again a man who says, you know what, ufo's might be real, sasquatch could be real dude. I mean the bar is low, real low, but yet they're offended?

There is actually a whole subreddit dedicated to laughing at the mindless pro-state zealotry of those who blindly follow the state's guidelines due to fears instilled from the pandemic. I forget who said it but anti-antivaxxer affiliation (can't say pro-vaccine, because there are many rational people who are pro-vaccine but anti-mandate and not anti-antivax) if you look at the conditions that cause history to repeat itself, its actually a rebirth of religions of the past.

So while you say religious heretics, there is a lot of truth to it. Since we live in an age of science, however, religious arguments will not suffice. Instead the zealotry follows the pope of this religion, an authority figure who instead of representing god, represents science (in fact the pope's own words unadulterated), a science which he has full authority over both in its dissemination and interpretation to his congregation.

If you're curious why people are so irrational about this, look no further than other examples religious zealotry, and realize its a very real phenomenon that repeats itself over and over throughout history because of the psychological traits of a certain, I would say pretty large, subset of people who have not learned to suppress very natural human cognitive biases.
There is no “license” to own or possess a firearm, parent is referring to the Form 4473, which is used to conduct a background check via NICS.
you should probably get off of slatestarcodex.com and maybe read some more personal essays like this. like how the hell would you even begin to quantify something like that? what do you compare it to? is somebody legitimately feeling unsafe not enough for this to be a problem?
Have they tested this for super conductivity?
This is a self defence. If police cannot protect you from bad people then you protect yourself from bad people.
> You can totally make a 1 digit typo while making a bank transfer that results in all the money being lost.

Difference being that it isn't "lost" -- not in the sense of vanished from the face of the Earth, gone, ceased to exist. It's only lost to the sender, but it still exists; someone still has it. Sure, the wrong person or entity, but still: It's not gone from existence. Only CryptoCrap does that.
You had no reason to! It's about twelve hours old.
Sure the worst drivers out there utilizing assist tech like autopilot would benefit everyone, but data shows that they aren't the ones spending money on fancy cars. My comment was about me making a decision for myself.

Plus in your hypothetical the autopilot can drive at least as well as me, which is also a big assumption and not something I believe with what I have seen so far.